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Show ? ANOTHER ? 1 ? A General Quiz ? rie Question 1. Approximately how much of the total land acreage of the United Unit-ed States is covered with forests? 2. What is a peccadillo? 3. When was FDR first inaugurated? inaugu-rated? 4. With what group of men is the name Ethan Allen assocfated? 5. What physical force throws people off revolving turntables at amusement parks? 6. What state, North or South Dakota, was admitted to the Union first? 7. What bird is mentioned most frequently in the Bible? 8. What country is largest in area, Belgium, Denmark or the Netherlands? 9. Approximately what proportion propor-tion of the total area of the United States do the southern states form? 10. Who was the first ambassador to the United States? The Answers 1. Approximately one-third of the United States is covered with forests. 2. A petty fault. 3. March 4, 1933. 4. The Green Mountain boys. 5. Centrifugal force. 6. Both were admitted to the Union on the same day, November Novem-ber 2, 1889. 7. Dove. 8. Denmark, area, 16,575 square miles; Belgium, 11,775 square miles; the Netherlands, 12,704 square miles. 9. One-fourth. 10. The first ambassador to the United States, Sir Julian Paunce-fote, Paunce-fote, was sent by Great Britain in 1889. The first minister was Pieter Johan Van Derckel from the Netherlands, Neth-erlands, who came on October 31, 1783. |